Temari Pattern 99CC02 instructions

Intermediate Pattern contributed by Carol Canright / Download PDF file of this pattern

Indigo Wrap

Carol Canright created this temari for the March 2005 GITS Round on TT and it was a popular request for her to share the pattern. This is Carol's interpretation from Cosmo #2, ISBN 4-8377-0280-5; Picture on page 21, top photo, left. Instructions pg 54, bottom, with diagram.

This uses a mari with a circumference of 27 cm marked in a C-10 (use cheapie marking thread, will be removed later) and Pearl Cotton #5.

The pattern emerges by doing two sets of weaves - one forming pentagons (wide bands in photo) and one forming stars (narrow bands in photo).

Pentagon Weave (orange lines in diagram at left)

1. First round of bands: Do 2 rounds on each side of marking thread. Rounds go though the middle of adjacent sides of pentagons. Leave in pins at poles as references. Working from left to right above a pole pin, the left is on the bottom, the right is on the top.

2. 2nd round of bands. Do 2 rounds on each side of previous wrap. Start new weave pattern on top of step 1 rounds.

Star Weave (purple lines in diagram)

3. Weaves over and under previous bands. Work through the middle of the pentagons you just completed. Working from left to right above a pole pin, go under pentagon weave, over the first star weave, under the second star weave, over the pentagon weave. Do 3 rounds.

4. Remove marking thread.